1 to 25 of 49 Contract Data Science Jobs in the UK excluding London

Principle Data Scientist

Hiring Organisation
Robert Walters
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Salary negotiable
Contract Principal Data Scientist (Senior Data Scientist) The Opportunity We're looking for a Principal Data Scientist (Senior Data Scientist level) to lead the development of advanced analytics, AI models, and data-driven solutions that deliver real organisational impact. This role sits at the intersection … data science, AI, and business strategy , combining technical expertise with leadership to shape high-value initiatives and unlock insights from complex data. What You'll Be Doing Build strong relationships with stakeholders to identify opportunities where data science and AI can deliver value Design, develop ...

Head of Data Science

Hiring Organisation
Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£700 - £800 per day
Head of Data Science London £700-£800 Per Day Outside IR35 2 Days On Site Immediate Start The Company They are a growing organisation that places data at the centre of decision-making. With a strong leadership commitment to analytics, they are investing in capability across data science, engineering, and AI. Their environment encourages innovation, experimentation, and cross-functional collaboration. You will join at a pivotal stage, with the chance to influence both strategy and execution. The Role and Deliverables * Define and execute the data science strategy, aligning with broader business objectives * Build ...

Data Science Technical Project Lead

Hiring Organisation
Pontoon
Location
Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Salary negotiable
Data Science Technical Project Lead Utilities Hybrid: 1-2 days per week in Warwick 6 months+ Contract day rate In short: We're seeking a technically competent Data Science Project Lead to oversee the work of 2-3 Data Science teams while also being … able to add technical input when necessary. This role requires someone who has lived within the Data Science world and would not suit a generalist IT Project Lead/PM . In full: As a Data Science Technical Project Lead, you lead the delivery of multiple ...

Technical Lead

Hiring Organisation
Reed
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Salary negotiable
onsite) Daily Rate: Inside IR35 We are seeking a hands-on Technical Lead to spearhead the design, engineering, and delivery of scalable, cloud-native data solutions across our enterprise data platform. This role is perfect for a technically adept engineering lead with expertise in data engineering, full … cloud platforms, and modern AI-enabled software delivery practices. Day-to-day of the role: Lead the end-to-end delivery of cloud-native data products and applications, including data ingestion, transformation, serving layers, and user-facing applications/UI. Translate business requirements into scalable, secure, production-ready ...

Database Analyst / Programmer

Hiring Organisation
Morson Edge
Location
Larne, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£30.00 - 33.50 per hour + None
hour, dependent on experience Contract: Fixed-term contract for 12 months, with the possibility of extension Role Overview We are seeking a skilled Data Analyst/Programmer to lead data acquisition, integration, analytics, and automation initiatives across our client's business. This hands-on role involves developing robust … data pipelines, delivering insightful analytics and automation solutions, and supporting business reporting and decision-making through established enterprise platforms. Key Responsibilities Data Engineering & Management Design, develop, and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines utilising Python, SQL, and Snowflake. Cleanse, validate, transform, and manage enterprise data to ensure accuracy ...

Senior Project Manager

Hiring Organisation
Pro Contract Jobs Ltd
Location
York, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
From £450 to £525 per day
Global business on a 14-month temporary basis. This is a rare contract role for a senior PM who thrives at the intersection of data science, healthcare and operational rigour. You will be at the heart of a busy Data Science team, translating technical complexity into … business clarity and turning ambiguous priorities into coherent, well-governed delivery. You will partner directly with Data Scientists, R&D leads and Commercial stakeholders, owning the planning and communication that keeps multiple concurrent initiatives aligned and on track. The position begins in July and is expected to last ...

Sustainable Procurement Data Analyst

Hiring Organisation
URENCO UK Ltd
Location
Capenhurst, Cheshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP 53,669 - 56,635 Annual
cutting edge of the transition to a sustainable, net zero world. We re looking for a 12-month fixed term contract Sustainable Procurement Data Analyst. Based at our Capenhurst site, we offer hybrid working with a minimum of 3 days in the office each week. You will support … Sustainable Procurement team by collecting, analysing, and interpreting data to enable fact based, strategic decision making. This role will ensure that the Sustainable Procurement Team has timely, accurate, and accessible data to develop strategies, monitor performance, and drive continual improvement. Collating data from various sources and platforms ...

Senior Data Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Adecco
Location
Solihull, West Midlands, West Midlands (County), United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£550 - £650/day Inside IR35
more. We do this by showcasing their talents, skills, and unique experience in an inclusive environment that helps them thrive. Job Title: Senior Data Engineer Location: Solihull - Hybrid Contract: 3 months with possible extension. Rate: £550 - £650 inside umbrella Purpose Design, build and assure scalable, secure data products … pipelines across Azure, AWS and Databricks. Lead data integration design, technical decisions and best practices, while mentoring engineers and enabling high-quality analytics, BI and data science outcomes. Reporting & Collaboration Reports to Lead Data Engineer with oversight from Head of Data Operations & Engineering Works across ...

Data Science / ML Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson Recruitment
Location
Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£56 - £600 per day
Data Science/ML Engineer (Contract) Glasgow (1 day per week) 600/day (Outside IR35) 3 Months We're hiring a hands-on ML Engineer to help a growing data-led marketing business unlock the value of its dataset across lead generation and tender platforms. … role: Building intelligent models to predict which prospects are most likely to convert. Use LLMs to enrich CRM data and extract insight from transcription data. Identify key data signals driving revenue and optimise over time. Deploy solutions in a cloud ML environment (GCP/Vertex AI) What ...

Commercial Pricing Analyst

Hiring Organisation
Sphere Digital Recruitment
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£47.00 - £63.00 per hour
pricing in a digital commerce environment. This is a contingent role for someone who can operate at pace, bring structure to ambiguity, and turn data, customer insight, commercial performance, and analytical recommendations into clear business decisions. It is a hands-on, data-heavy role, not a coordination role. … strategy, e-commerce pricing, analytics, measurement, AI/ML-enabled pricing tools, merchandising, operations, and business adoption. You will help teams understand what the data is saying, what decisions need to be made, what trade-offs matter, and how pricing actions can be executed with discipline and measurable impact. ...

Lead Data Scientist

Hiring Organisation
Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£450 - £480 per day
Lead Data Scientist England £450-£480 Per Day, Outside IR35 Remote Immediate Start The Company They are a specialist organisation working at the forefront of AI-driven customer engagement. Their focus is on enabling highly personalised, real-time decisions across digital channels using advanced analytics and machine learning. … domain expertise with strong delivery capability, supporting enterprise clients across multiple sectors. The Role and Deliverables You will take ownership of end-to-end data science delivery, from problem definition through to deployment in live environments.* Design, build, and deploy machine learning models within Pega-based decisioning platforms. ...

Data Scientist

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson
Location
Reading, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£750 - £800 per day
Data Scientist £750-£800pd via Umbrella Fully remote Initially 6 months with long term potential Leading business is looking to recruit a Data Scientist with strong experience in exploratory analytics, machine learning and NLP to support a major programme focused on extracting insight from complex, largely unstructured funding … requirements, explore datasets, and design potential approaches to classification, semantic search, matching and comparison of text-heavy data. The emphasis is on understanding the data, testing hypotheses, and developing proof-of-concept solutions that can later be transitioned into production by engineering teams. Exploratory Data Science & Modelling ...

Data Scientist

Hiring Organisation
Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£450 - £500 per day
Data Scientist London £450 - £500 Per Day Outside IR35 Immediate Start 3 Days In Office The Company They are a data-driven organisation operating at scale, with a strong focus on leveraging analytics to improve performance and customer outcomes. Their teams bring together expertise across data science … modern tools and encourages continuous learning. The Role and Deliverables Build, validate, and deploy machine learning models to solve business problems Translate complex data into actionable insights for non-technical stakeholders Work with structured and unstructured datasets to uncover trends and opportunities Collaborate with data engineers to ensure ...

Data Scientist

Hiring Organisation
Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£400 - £520 per day
Data Scientist London1 Day a Week In OfficeOutside IR35£400-£520 Per Day Immediate Start The Company They are a data-driven organisation with a strong focus on using analytics to inform commercial and customer-focused decisions. Data and decision sciences play a central role across multiple … teams. The business values robust, well-documented solutions that are actively used by stakeholders. This contract supports ongoing delivery and knowledge transfer within the data function. The Role and Deliverables Take ownership of an existing retention model, ensuring accuracy, reliability and ongoing business adoption. Review model performance, data ...

Information Scientist

Hiring Organisation
Talentmark
Location
Slough, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£22.40 - £30.81/hour
Talentmark are recruiting for a Scientific Data Analyst to join a global pharmaceutical company on a contract basis initially for 12 months. This role is based predomiately at the client's site in Slough but with some home working. Salary: £22.40 per hour PAYE, or £30.81 per hour Umbrella … inside IR35) Scientific Data Analyst role: Apply scientific knowledge alongside coding, data analysis, and AI-enabled methods to extract insights from biomedical literature and external data Develop and support programmatic workflows for scientific data analysis Apply data science techniques to extract trends and insights ...

Data Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Reed
Location
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£600 per day, Inc benefits
Outside IR35) Day Rate: Up to £600 a day Overview We’re supporting a highly respected Software business to in their search for a Data Engineer to support a major client engagement. They’re looking to bring in a Data Engineer to help design and build modern data solutions that enable better analytics, reporting, and data-driven decision making. This is a hands-on role with exposure to client environments, ideal for someone who enjoys working across the full data lifecycle while continuing to develop their technical skillset. The Role: Support the design and development ...

Data Science / ML Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson Recruitment
Location
Glasgow, Lanarkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP 56 - 600 Daily
Data Science/ML Engineer (Contract) Glasgow (1 day per week) 600/day (Outside IR35) 3 Months We're hiring a hands-on ML Engineer to help a growing data-led marketing business unlock the value of its dataset across lead generation and tender platforms. ...

AI & Automation Intern

Hiring Organisation
Smartsearch Recruitment
Location
Chester, Cheshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£12.50 - £15.00/hour
Facebook, Instagram and YouTube channels • Support wider digital transformation and technology projects across the business About You: • Current student or recent graduate in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Business Technology, Digital Innovation or a related discipline • Strong interest in AI, automation and emerging technologies … details of any relevant projects, technologies or AI tools you have worked with. Keywords: AI Intern, Automation Intern, Artificial Intelligence Intern, Summer Internship, Computer Science Internship, Software Engineering Intern, AI Automation, ChatGPT, Claude, N8N, (url removed), Digital Transformation, Technology Internship, Data Science Internship, Graduate Intern Smartsearch takes ...

Senior MLOps Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Pro Contract Jobs Ltd
Location
Surrey, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Kingdom Full-Time The Role: We seek an experienced expert to contribute significantly to an R&D team, bridging machine learning engineering with applied data science. You will improve and manage Machine Learning Operations on Azure and participate in creating, assessing, and advancing various machine learning models … ensure the robustness, scalability, and reliability of AI tools. By implementing automation and standardisation throughout the ML lifecycle, your work will support faster, data-informed decision-making and innovation. Key Responsibilities: Design, build, and maintain resilient Machine Learning Operations pipelines that support the complete lifecycle of AI models, from ...

Full Stack Engineer - ML/Gen AI

Hiring Organisation
INTEC SELECT LIMITED
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£375 - £475 per day
strongly desire to contribute to a groundbreaking project that will transform the future of language learning and assessment. While this role does not require data science skills, experience delivering production systems with AI components is highly desirable. Main Accountabilities Collaborate with the Technology Lead, product managers, experience designers … applications, is desirable. Experience working on AI/ML/LLM-based applications is desirable. Beneficial technical skills include: AWS – including certification Terraform Kubernetes Data science/ML tooling – scikit, TensorFlow, hugging face, pytorch Any ML/Gen AI tooling such as Langchain, Langsmith, ML Flow, Dataiku, Data ...

UX / Service Designer - Consumer Duty

Hiring Organisation
Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Salary negotiable
triggers, ensuring auditability and regulatory compliance. Drive dual-track discovery, running research ahead of delivery, producing testable designs and insights to inform engineering and data science teams. Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Data Science, and stakeholders to deliver accessible, inclusive, and high-performing user experiences ...

AI Engineer

Hiring Organisation
ARM
Location
Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
processing. Develop and integrate AI pipelines into enterprise applications. Support scaling of AI capabilities across datasets and use cases. Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, data governance, and security standards. Build and optimise AI pipelines for extraction, transformation, and validation. Ensure accuracy, quality, and performance of AI outputs. Implement validation … emerging AI capabilities to enhance delivery outcomes. Skills & Experience: Experience with AI/ML workflows and document intelligence solutions. Strong programming skills (Python, APIs, data processing frameworks). Experience with cloud-based AI services and scalable architectures. Understanding of model validation, accuracy, and lifecycle management. Experience integrating AI into ...

Senior Project Manager

Hiring Organisation
Pro Contract Jobs Ltd
Location
York, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP 450 - 525 Daily
Global business on a 14-month temporary basis. This is a rare contract role for a senior PM who thrives at the intersection of data science, healthcare and operational rigour. You will be at the heart of a busy Data Science team, translating technical complexity into ...

2xData Scientist (Supply Chain & Predictive Maintenance)

Hiring Organisation
Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited
Location
West Drayton, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Salary negotiable
Contract Job alert** Seeking 2x Data Scientist 6 months+ on-going contract - 3 days on site near Heathrow - Inside IR35 Please note that UK-based candidates only - 5 years of UK residency and, ideally, a British citizen is required. 1x Data Scientist (Supply Chain)Must have -A deep … knowledge of supply chain models and analytics, to help build the right models with the right science behind them. Including: o Understanding of how to handle/model slow moving partso Multi-echelon inventoryo How to balance cost and service levels (fill rates and cycle service levels)o Developing ...

Lead Data Scientist

Hiring Organisation
Talent Locker
Location
Farnborough, Hampshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£550 - £650 per day
Lead Data Scientist - Farnborough - Outside IR35 £550 - £650 P/Day - Hybrid A growing technology organisation operating within highly secure environments is looking to hire a Lead Data Scientist to lead Data Science processes and GenAI deployment across complex programmes. As a Lead Data Scientist … capability forward, while remaining hands-on with model development, optimisation, and deployment. Key Responsibilities Design and build advanced AI/ML solutions for complex data-driven challenges Develop and optimise Generative AI models and LLM-based applications Work with transformer architectures, SLMs, convolutional models, and related AI frameworks Build ...